Re: new Java lambda syntax
On 13/09/2011 04:24, Joshua Cranmer allegedly wrote:
On 9/12/2011 7:00 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
On 12/09/2011 00:07, Joshua Cranmer allegedly wrote:
List<Runnable> runners = new LinkedList<Runnable>();
for (int i = 0; i< 10; i++) {
runners.add(() => { System.out.println("Value of i is " + i); });
}
for (Runnable r : runners) {
r.run();
}
Beg your pardon, I haven't followed this issue as closely as I probably
have should, but does this all mean lambdas are always Runnables? Never
Callable<T>s? IOW, no return values?
No, I just opted for Runnable here because it was simple.
Okay, so you can have a lambda returning a value? Steve Simpson's statement:
There's no (...) long jumps (break, continue, return, throw)
seemed to contradict that, as did Tom's about the "Gafterist nonsense"
(<3), seeing how Gafter et al.'s proposal contained return values, IIRC.
I mean, if they cannot return values, I'm a bit at a loss understanding
how they'll be the nec plus ultra for parallel computing... you'd
publish results to a shared queue, I suppose, but that's a bit unhandy.
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